In What Sense Can We Understand the Mind As Existing Beyond the Brain?
In what sense can we understand the mind as existing beyond the brain? Throughout history, since the days of the Continue reading
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Calvino and the Codex Seraphinianus: A Psychedelic Mystery
On a cloudy Friday afternoon, sometime at the end of March, we were sat huddled on the floor of a Continue reading
Man, the Animal Without Essence, 3: Brains, Hands and Tools
Artifice and art itself – these are the two meanings of the Greek word technē. Technē is, according to French Continue reading
Borges and the Book of Infinity
If the Library of Babel is a library that is all libraries, then what if there was a book that is all books? What if, in the pages of a book, one could find infinity itself?
Stiegler and Derrida: The Technical History of Memory
Stiegler defines what he calls ‘grammatisation’ as the ‘technical history of memory, in which hypomnesic memory continually reintroduces the constitution Continue reading
Man, the Animal Without Essence, 2: Fire and the Cave
Why do humans produce art? What is it that has led us as a species to feel the need to Continue reading
Is Vertical Farming The Future?
With the population sky high, and the size of our cities reaching breaking point, the demand on the agriculture sector Continue reading
Kafka, Orwell, Huxley: The Surveillance State in Literature
Even since the days before the Edward Snowden revelations there have been comparisons made between the powers of the NSA Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 